In this first post about Shadow World I will list some of the initial design decisions I have already made for the MUD. The main goal of the Shadow World MUD server is flexibility, it should be able to handle any kind of MUD from simple and old-fashioned text-only MUDs, to somewhat modern-looking graphical online …
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Experimenting with shared memory
I have just been testing a couple of programs with shared memory. One using SYSV shared memory and one using POSIX shared memory.
Tutorial MUD, part 5: Networking, part 1
By now we have a program that obediently sits at the command prompt, waiting for us to press CTRL-C so that it can shutdown in a nice way. It all works, but it’s not very exciting. In this part we will begin writing one of the interesting parts of a MUD server, the part that actually puts …
Tutorial MUD, part 4: Mainloop and signals
We are starting to get the groundwork of our server in place, there are just a couple of things left to do. The first thing is to create a loop that will keep the server running. The second thing is to handle signals such as a user pressing CTRL-C in the console where the program …
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